I eagerly await Michelle Obama’s hashtag campaign against this evil travesty of justice.
Ed Payne and Daniel Burke, CNN:
A Sudanese court has sentenced a Christian woman to death for renouncing Islam, her lawyer said Thursday.
Meriam Yehya Ibrahim, 27, was convicted by a Khartoum court this week of apostasy, or the renunciation of faith…
According to the rights group Amnesty International, she was convicted of adultery because her marriage to a Christian man was considered void under Sharia law. She was sentenced to 100 lashes for the second crime.
If Boko Haram’s behavior is worth speaking out against, Mrs. Obama, why isn’t this? Why is one outrage considered trendy, but the other isn’t?
But by all means, let’s treat all these stories like unrelated incidents. Flying planes into skyscrapers? Shooting 14 people at Ft. Hood? Kidnapping hundreds of young girls? Sentencing a woman to flogging and death for her religion?
There’s not a single thread that runs through those stories, and hundreds of others like them.
Because shut up, racist: